Game Classification

Ripper! Avalon Hill (U.S.A.), Avalon Hill, 1984  

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Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Adventure - Detective - Horror - Interactive fiction - Mystery - Puzzle-solving - Real-time

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MANAGE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick WRITE : explanation of this brick
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Ripper! Text Adventure that has eerie music playing the whole time. At the time if you played it with the lights low, it got to you. Takes place in 1900 with some famous and fictional characters like Sherlock Holmes, Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale. it is a text based game with a parser and as a twist it happens in real-time while you are playing. You do have a time limit to discover who is Jack the Ripper. The game also came with a clue envelop you could open if you wished for a hint. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Commodore 64

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